Setting out to become a researcher while mid-career as a clinical physician was a challenging prospect, but Colleen M. Fitzgerald, MD, MS, associate professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Loyola University Chicago Medical Center, t…
Immunosuppressants associated with modestly increased risk of malignancy
Patients with inflammatory eye disease who underwent systemic immunosuppressive therapy had a moderately higher risk of malignancy than those who received corticosteroids, according to study findings.The retrospective cohort study included 190 patients…
What does the patient see?
When we examine patients, we are looking at their eyes and their pathologies from the outside seeing in. We can get some idea as to the visual obscuration caused by a cataract by seeing how our view of the retina is distorted when looking through it. B…
Google Glass Causes Blind Spots, Study Finds
A small study has shown that the eyeglass-mounted computer Google Glass causes scotoma in the upper right visual field; the blind spots were not related to distraction from software. Medscape Medical News
Google glass: could it cause blind spots?
Researchers from the University of California-San Francisco find that Google Glass – a wearable, head-mounted computer – could obstruct a wearer’s peripheral vision.
Combating major cause of preventable blindness in Africa with new rapid test
Faster, easy-to-use test is the first in a suite of tools to help stamp out neglected tropical diseases in the world’s most vulnerable communitiesA new test will accelerate global progress toward…